[Hammarlund] Favorite Hammerlund Receiver

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon
<kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> In my opinion, the HQ-129X was the very best in its price class at
> the time. I have one of those too. Really like it.

I agree with that. Same with its earlier version, the 120X. Carl and I
were discussing a while back what a great "entry level" rig Hammarlund
offered. Had a 120X years ago that I loved. Sent it down the road but
have a 129X in its place. Once it's done, it will stay here. Gotta
love the look of those streamlined chickenhead knobs, as impractical
as they can be to use. The tuning knobs are a bit small too, but they
look right, and it was all about a new post-war look for a pre-war
rig.

> But the SP-200 line is still my favorite.

Mine too. Well, the early pre-war Super Pro be it SP-10, -100, or
-200. Had a bunch of these over the years and never kept them around
until W3JN convinced me to take a second look, and how to use one as
designed. Been a rabid fan for nearly a decade since!

The WWII versions got a bad rap after the war for numerous reasons,
which Henry Rogers explains well on his Western Historic Radio Museum
site. He also does numerous side-by-side comparisons with other
popular receivers of the day, all there to be read.

There are plenty of receivers that have come along since that beat
them in areas like dial readout, stability, and so on. But for its
day, it was the top of the heap. The military thought enough of it to
take it off the shelf in high quantities, along with the SX-28, and
HROs. Even after "better" purpose-built military sets came along, they
remained in service.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4